My prediction about Times Select was wrong...New Year's Day has come and gone, and it's still with us. Well, I've been wrong before.

Lately, it seems every fashion magazine, cover, hip TV show is about exactly three people: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Aniston. I've admittedly devoured gossip probably more than I should have, and I don't have anything against any of them, but haven't we maybe had enough of America's most famous love triangle?

Most of these articles are titled something like, "Jen Bounces Back." I wonder that Jen ever didn't see the writing on the wall. The thing that made Jennifer Aniston was Brad Pitt. Friends "jumped the shark" in its 2nd season (can anyone believe that show actually was Emmy worthy), and the show's lunchboxes are now on clearance sale for $9.99 at the NBC online store. Jen was (admittedly arguably) the worst of the three females on the show, and 4th or 5th over all. (At the bottom of that list is David Schwimmer, mostly for being an actor who would probably have won an Academy Award by now had that show never come along -- and who do you blame when it's your own damn fault?)

I don't even want to get into the rest of her career, other than to point out her certainly notable performance on the Bill Bixby directed TV version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

So why does she make the tabloids? Because of her brilliant acting talent? Or is it because she's the ultimate sucker, the Ed Rooney (to extend the FBDO reference) of that trio, and everybody loves an underdog? Brad Pitt cheats on and then leaves his wife for his pregnant girlfriend, who steals him away knowing he's married, something that would be completely reprehensible to most were it to happen to someone at the office or in a circle of friends. But America, instead, is rooting for Brangelina, and good for them.

Maybe I have better things to worry about?